Kevin's Watch

Yeah, there's that...

I feel today pretty much the same way I've always felt. With my senses. Specifically with the tips of my fingers depending upon what it is I'm trying to feel.

TOM! How's it going?

aliantha wrote:TOM! How's it going?

I'm doing okay. Back at work thank goodness. You would have thought I'd have been on the watch every day when I was unemployed but not so much.
Now that I'm supposed to be working I'm back on the Watch.

We missed you! Welcome back!

I know how I don't feel today... I don't feel like going to work but I must...bleagh...

Cagliostro wrote: We started potty training the boy this weekend. It started off just fine, but the novelty wore off by the end of the first day, and the struggle has begun. Fingers crossed.

how do you do it? do you start with number one and then graduate to number two? or do you do both at the same time? i would imagine you could appeal to his burgeoning sense of manhood solidarity and get him to go number one with dad so dad could instruct on the shaking of the thing and such...

girls are different right? they can get instruction on both at the same time, the whole sitting down thing.

someone at work a while back asked me how come i take a book to the potty with me when i go. i had to laugh and explain it was potty training hangover. heh. my parents always got me to sit on the potty and read a book until i was finished! (yes i DO remember - my favorite potty book was my Little GoldenBook copy of Nurse Nancy with the heart bandaids stuck to the inside cover)

so yeah...give him a book.

Well, we've been talking it up all week, and reading books/watching videos. But none really get right to it. So, and I guess I'll just go ahead and admit it as Cov Jr. already has been told, my aim with the manly way of urinating is not the best, so I tend to sit down at anything other than a urinal. But I "manned up" and showed him the manly way, and he then put two and two together (or rather #1 and penis together) and was able to understand that at least. However, he so far has not successfully done #2 in his potty yet. TMI, anyone?

P.S. My aim was true that day.

Cagliostro wrote:P.S. My aim was true that day.

I'm sure Carla was grateful.

Cagliostro wrote:Well, we've been talking it up all week, and reading books/watching videos. But none really get right to it. So, and I guess I'll just go ahead and admit it as Cov Jr. already has been told, my aim with the manly way of urinating is not the best, so I tend to sit down at anything other than a urinal. But I "manned up" and showed him the manly way, and he then put two and two together (or rather #1 and penis together) and was able to understand that at least. However, he so far has not successfully done #2 in his potty yet. TMI, anyone?

P.S. My aim was true that day.

I never taught my son to pee sitting down. We tried the Cheerios in the bowl thing, but he kept wanting to eat them. Here's my best advice:

Patience. Potty training is a long and grueling process and is a spirit breaker. Pretty much the best way to get them to consistently pee and poop in the bowl is to consistently put them on the bowl for months and months until they get it. Just try EVERYTHING until you figure out what works best for your son. Stickers, ice cream, lollipops or any assortment of candy never worked for my son. Never underestimate the Potty Dance Celebration, either.

Oh, and here's some advice from my beloved pediatrician (I do love him so): "Celebrate him taking a dump like you just f****ing cured cancer".

And don't try Pull-Ups. Even the one that has a cooling sensation when they pee. They'll just treat it like a diaper. In the same vein, once you have decided to start the potty training process for serious, don't buy any more diapers. Period. Don't even put him in one (that includes trips to the outside world). If he soils himself, clean it up. I understand the laundry will quadbilliondruple, but once they get a diaper on, it's like going back in time.

Our luckiest accident in a store was at a PetSmart, where they thankfully had a potty clean up station. Why can't every store have that?!

Kids really effing hate terlits.

Oh, I have to chime in here!

This is from the distant past...and I am SO glad that Dam-et (now nominally an adult) does not frequent the Watch!

Dam-et was late to finally "get onboard" in terms of using plumbing. What finally did it was his fixation of Thomas the Tank Engine. There was a Thomas show coming to the local downtown venue back in 199x...so Dam-sel and I convinced him that he needed to be a full time passenger of the Potty Train (you think my obsession with wordplay is a recent thing?), or he could not attend the Thomas event.

He complied and we went to the event. A splendid time was had by...well, by him. However, afterward (but before we went home) he had an incident of backsliding and fouled himself.

Entirely unrelated, there was a nasty storm that evening. We had many huge century oaks on our property...and either a lightning strike or a microburst wind-shear broke off a 70 foot limb that crushed the roof of half our house, including the bathroom that Dam-et used.

What we discovered when we got home, linked by him (we did not suggest the linkage to him) to his temporary failing, so put the fear of the Potty Deities in him, that he never had an accident again.

That is perhaps the greatest story of all time. Sorry about your house, but at least you got him potty trained?

We would bribe my son with what he calls the "Large Fan" which isn't actually large (he has an obsession with fans). We would tell him if he didn't poop in the pooper, he wouldn't get the Large Fan. It worked some nights.

You know what else worked? Spongebob underwear. It's the damndest thing I've ever seen.

JazFusion wrote:You know what else worked? Spongebob underwear. It's the damndest thing I've ever seen.

Makes sense to me. I wouldn't want to poop on poor Spongebob either.

I love that this thread has turned into a poopfest

aTOMiC wrote:

aliantha wrote:TOM! How's it going?

I'm doing okay. Back at work thank goodness. You would have thought I'd have been on the watch every day when I was unemployed but not so much.
Now that I'm supposed to be working I'm back on the Watch.

Welcome back man. And congrats on the job. Good to have you around again.

--A

I see TOM wasted no time in lighting up Mallory's...

Can't believe I'm getting away with propositioning Rigel in a tank thread and NOBODY has told me to stop yet.

Cameraman Jenn wrote:I see TOM wasted no time in lighting up Mallory's...

Can't believe I'm getting away with propositioning Rigel in a tank thread and NOBODY has told me to stop yet.

I'm considering challenging him to a duel

This could get interesting....

Orlion wrote: I'm considering challenging him to a duel

Don't you mean a dual?


We could BOTH make her sandwiches... AT THE SAME TIME!!!

WAIT??? Is that chicken salad on the right???? I LOVE chicken salad. Who's sammie is that? He might win extra attentions for providing chicken salad...seriously....